I wish I could insert them in every church bulletin across the US!!!!

Ever since Dr. Jerry Falwell passed away there hasn’t been one leader to stop and pick up where he left off. Dr. James Dobson former head of the ineffective Focus on the Family (or wha’ts left of it) recently resigned and again, no one has stepped up to take his place.

The left has ACORN, Media Matters, Daily Kos, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC of which to indoctrinate the masses while we have only small sites like this and FOXNEWS to counter.

I had emailed FOF twice in the past and got a response within 24 hours. Last year leading up to the election when it appeared The One was going to win, I sent out a more urgent message for them to get on TV and tell their followers to vote their consience, morals etc. but for the first time it went unaswered. This is when I knew they were in trouble then last week I saw an interview I think it was on Hannity where it was Dr. Dobson’s first public interview since his resignation.

Sure Dr. Dobson spoke pointed and passionate as always with easy to follow explanations of his message and views but where was he earlier? Where was he and similar groups like Amrican Family Association prior to the election? Its too late now, we are stuck with this super majority Left for at least 1.5 more years.

note, good read and we need more diaries about the Christian Right and a revival to boot. I just wrote another comment on this in my profile but now is the perfect time for a tradionally conservative school like Liberty University or Hillsdale College in Michigan to get some free publicity and offer Ms. California, Ms. Carrie Prejean, a full ride scholarship to their schools.

Even if it is ceremonial and she has no intention of actually accepting it, they need to reach out to her and support her for her beliefs are theirs and ours. What a better opportunity than to reach out to young people the very demographic you want at your institution?

They need to practice what they preach. Hopefully she doesn’t get blacklisted by professors in whatever college she ultimately attends.

More than anything else, I blame the media and Hollywood for the decadence and takeover of our country. Culturally, it appears they have succeeded and now politically it is like the last nails in the coffin.

One point I’d like to make is about the free expression of religion. We constantly see infringements of our practice of religion-just look at how the left has been able to get religion out of the public square, out of our schools-even to no longer calling it Christmas vacation, etc. Someday, the ACLU will succeed in making the churches and synagogues take down their public symbols-Crosses, Stars of David-from their buildings because it is offensive to someone living across the street.

This past week, we have seen the President of the United States succeed in covering up the name of Christ, a contestant potentially losing a pageant for not being for gay marriage, and people protesting government policies being labeled as right-wing extremists. People like us used to be the backbone of America; now the left marginalizes us and makes it seem that we are the exception, rather than the rule.

Sorry Maillux, I don’t mean to sound so down, but the nastiness and dishonesty of the MSM toward us has been hard on the spirit. I’d like to believe there are still more of us than them, but all I see is an assault on decent values and a destruction that is enabling a “Culture of Death” in more ways than one.

“What if the armies of the Lord
Picked up and dusted off their swords
Vowed to set the captive free
And not let satan have one more

What if the Church, for heaven’s sake
Finally stepped up to the plate
Took a stand upon God’s promise
And stormed hell’s rusty gates

Chorus:
What if His people prayed
And those who bear His name
Would humbly seek His faith, yeah
And turn from their own ways

And what would happen if we prayed
For those raised up to lead the way
Then maybe kids in school could pray
And unborn children see light of day

What if the life that we pursue
Came from a hunger for the truth
What if the family turned to Jesus
Stopped asking Oprah what to do …”

The leaders of tomorrow are rising in churches around the nation. We’re young adults right now, and sadly not taken seriously by the majority of the establishment of the “religious right,” which seems to be giving up in favor of cloud-watching, apparently in the hopes of being the first to catch a glimpse of the Return. Best of luck to them. Me and the other young people like me will be happily about Christ’s work on Earth, sowing the seeds of faith behind enemy lines.

Me, I’m going back to school. I’m working towards an M/Div and possibly a M/Ed while I’m at it. I want to be part of the solution to the growing problem of self-styled Christians who attend church and sing hymns because they were raised that way, but have never experienced the longing for God’s Word, the hunger for the Truth. We as Christians have been complicit in the propagation of ignorance for long enough. It’s time to ring the school bell and wake people up.

When I read your name…I see Mail and the X at the end of your name and my brain sees mailbox…LOL

Great diary!!!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

It isn’t often written how MUCH global warming we’ll get from our “wicked industrialized ways”. But one hotter estimate is that in 100 years the temperature will go up by 5 degrees [I've also read arguments by global warming proponents that global warming will make the temperature go up by 1 degree in 100 years.]

But let’s say that global warming is real and that the temperature will rise 5 degrees in 100 years. Critical thinking time: HOW BAD IS THAT?

Let’s try January – ok, so instead of 10 degrees being a really cold day in January, in 100 years 15 degrees is going to be a really cold day in January. Umm … is that a bad thing??????

OK, well what about August – instead of a really hot day in August being 100 degrees, it’s going to be 105 degrees. Well that’s unfortunate, but it’s not the end of the world. And if you really don’t like it, you could move to Deadhorse, AK. Then instead of a really hot day being 55 degrees, it might start getting up to 60 there – in August. If that’s too hot for you, you’ll just have to tough it out till January when maybe all that global warming will get it up to a sweltering 30 degrees below zero in Deadhorse.

Bottom line – even if global warming is true, what’s the problem?

This, along with the 13 folds of the flag post, is why your diaries are becoming must-reads for me after my 2 short months as a member here.

Of course, I haven’t been trying very hard, and neither have most of us who feel the same way. Thank you for taking the time to write this brilliant diary.

I say that with no sarcasm or ridicule.

While I don’t consider myself a SoCon, I think that one of the best things that could happen to America (politically speaking) would be a new Moral Majority. I tire of being told that my views aren’t “nuanced” enough and that our world isn’t black and white, as if I were incapable of rational thought, and of not being able to point out obvious and life-giving truths in fear of awakening the professionally offended, all the while being treated as a child whose Big Brother knows best, and I think that many, many others do as well. The chains of political correctness which hold us in thrall to our political overlords need to be broken, and the untrammeled power of life and death that judges have given themselves needs to be re-taken. The poisoned well from which the children of America sip every day in the schools that they attend must be dried up. The Moral Majority, IMO, is a wonderful way to accomplish all of these things.

Most of all, I think that the Moral Majority has the capacity to destroy the post-modernist myth of relativity, and all of the evil that comes with it. The Moral Majority should associate itself with modernism, if not fully, at least in alliance. It’s no coincidence that Christianity was at its most vibrant since the early Church when the ideas of free speech, free markets, and objectivity blossomed in Europe, and in our own country.

Something that should be avoided by this new moral majority is any sort of capitulation to the religious progressives who join its ranks, remembering that “compassionate conservative” ends up being neither.

Anyways, great diary. In the free market of ideas, Christianity always wins, and I believe that this makes us the natural protectors of free speech. Public schools have never worked, and will never work, and the malignment that Judeo-Christianity receives gives us a perspective into the flawed school system. Implicit in the Judeo-Christian belief in the inherent dignity of man and the sanctity of choice is a belief in a government that doesn’t smother said choice with onerous regulations, fees, and laws, and in a government that makes laws to maximize it, instead. I think that these are the elements which will combine to catalyze a new Moral Majority in America.

One small quibble: I think that this new Moral Majority would do well to recognize that the government is a poor guardian of such a sacred institution as marriage, and that instead of government, churches and synagogues are more qualified to administer this holy rite, thus removing hte “gay marriage” debate from the picture.

where is the outrage over the bachelor, bachelorette, Who Wants to marry my dad, sister, mother etc.

IMHO these “reality TV” shows are the worst offenders of Marriage. These are people gettting married to just to gain a pay check. Its a sham and all it does is bring marriage down to the lowest common denominator

How about the immorality of politicians deliberately spending us into an inflationary spiral, debasing the currency, and destroying savings and investment?

I find that to be at least as morally reprehensible as anything else mentioned here.

I know it is well written, meaningful to the author, and powerful to readers. I know we need morality in this world, and a rebirth of faith in this nation. I also know surely that our founding documents and their authors were mostly religious men, and certainly they had a moral compass.

I wonder if religion or a new “Moral Majority” is what we conservatives need to stop the slide of Socialism and the Obama express. I do know that there ARE much better terms than “Moral Majority”, heck I could give you a few hundred that would be better.

There is little in this diary I can, or want to, directly refute. But in Realpolitik, I doubt a great Religious Awakening will return our nation to the values on which it was founded. Just off hand, the two largest religious groups are conservative whites and liberal blacks. We already have most of the religious whites, and we will not get any of the religious blacks by telling them then need to be more religious and moral.

What we need to return to power has not changed, we have changed, the times have changed, but the answer has always been there. We need to stand with all our power behind the libertarian-conservative values of our Founders and the modern men who best represented their views, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.

We lost power and are losing our country because of non conservative groups such as the first Moral Majority. We lost it with big government fake conservatives such as Bush, Frist, and Kyle. We lost control of the government because we became of the government, we forgot that LIBERTY is the greatest moral gift of the Founders and the Creator.

Again, It is not the diarist’s beliefs with which I differ. It is only that I believe the way out of the Wilderness is to show how our religiously based, human liberty-minded beliefs are those that were meant for this country, in fact, they are the enshrined law of the land, given to us be the Creator.

If one truly believes in morality, they must offer a choice, as did our Creator. The government is not the moral center, the people are. The only way to enhance morality is to shrink the government and to let people choose how best to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

I am calling for a Constitutional Majority. I am calling for a nation that knows and reveres its history and the men who spilled blood for our freedom. It is freedom, liberty, and the rights of the individual that are our greatest gifts from God in this life, in the next it is Salvation. The way to change the nation is bring back the love of each individual and his right to pursue his dreams.

I don’t mean to offend, but unless I’m wrong in the middle there you seem to be arguing that marriage outside of a religious context is a bad thing (coming from your personal responsibility section). Am I correct? I think that a good argument in favor of legal marriage is it gives people another reason to tough out the bad times together. Although with that 50% divorce rate, perhaps not too much.

I would not outright reject moral relativism. Modern Christian morals are very much relative to society, and have been shaped into what they are today by 2000 years of reflection and reassessment. In 2000 more years, they will still be different, but not necessarily wrong.

For education and such, I’m convinced that the solution to most our problems is 1 or 2 years of military service for everyone like many European and Asian nations, and in school Latin classes and an hour of physical education every day. I think that there needs to be a certain level of pride in one’s country. Not necessarily blind nationalism, but more a feeling of being lucky to be American or live in America, and a feeling of responsibility and ambition to drive the country forward.

I was not around at the time of the “moral majority.” However, from what I’ve heard, it sounds to have been detrimental to both its stated legal and religious goals.

Christians should not need a “leader” other than Christ. We evangelize and spread the word to others through both our words and our actions. The decline in the percentage of Christians has been a result of too many Christians failing to live like Christians. Even whole churches have become problems in this regard.

Where legislation and politics is concerned, the only legitimate (and I believe Biblical) role of the Christian church is to seek to protect its own free exercise within the law. Where it cannot do so legally, it is still the duty of Christians to risk criminalization for evangelizing. Where we can work legally to protect ourselves, I think Christ would expect us to.

However, laws that extend to the rest of society should rest on a sufficient basis that excludes supernatural revelation.

I suspect many of the ends sought by the “moral majority” had perfectly legitimate rational and secular bases. However, they did not make the case for such bases and likely did not accept them themselves. The ends were defeated by improper and illogical means.

Certainly today, a political movement by Christian churches to defend our right to free exercise is in dire need. There is no question the government at all levels is trampling all over that.